Humboldt Forum
The Humboldt Forum is a museum dedicated to human history, art, and culture, housed in the Berlin Palace on Museum Island in the historic centre of Berlin. Its name honours the Prussian scholars Wilhelm and Alexander von Humboldt, and it is often described as the German equivalent of the British Museum because it brings together non-European collections from the Berlin State Museums, alongside temporary exhibitions and public events. What makes this place especially consequential is that it reassembles earlier cultural institutions within the palace walls: the Humboldt Forum incorporates exhibitions from the Ethnological Museum of Berlin and the Museum of Asian Art. Those histories trace back to the Ancient Prussian Art Chamber, founded in the mid-16th century by Joachim II Hector, Elector of Brandenburg, which was nearly destroyed during the Thirty Years’ War (1618–1648). …
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